1902–03 Netherlands Football League Championship
# 1902–03 Netherlands Football League Championship

The Netherlands Football League Championship 1902–1903 was contested by eighteen teams participating in three divisions. This season, the western division had been split in two, creating the Eerste Klasse West-A and the Eerste Klasse West-B. The national champion would be determined by a play-off featuring the winners of the three divisions of the Netherlands. HVV Den Haag won this year's championship by beating Vitesse Arnhem and Volharding.

## New entrants

Eerste Klasse West-A:

* Sparta Rotterdam returned after one year of absence

Eerste Klasse West-B: (new division) Moved from Division East:

* Hercules

Moved from Division West-A:

* HBS Creayenhout
* Rapiditas Rotterdam
* Koninklijke HFC

New:

* Quick 1890
* Volharding

## Divisions

### Eerste Klasse East

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Vitesse | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 13 | +29 | 18 | Qualified for Championship play-off |
| 2 | PW | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 13 | |
| 3 | Go Ahead Wageningen | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 27 | +4 | 11 | Merged to form GVC Wageningen |
| 4 | Quick Nijmegen | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 29 | −9 | 8 | |
| 5 | Koninklijke UD | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 37 | −14 | 7 | |
| 6 | Victoria Wageningen | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 47 | −35 | 3 | Merged to form GVC Wageningen |

### Eerste Klasse West-A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | HVV Den Haag | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 27 | 10 | +17 | 14 | Qualified for Championship play-off Moved to Division West-B |
| 2 | Sparta Rotterdam | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 11 | +7 | 12 | |
| 3 | Ajax Sportman Combinatie | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 20 | +3 | 11 | |
| 4 | Velocitas | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 19 | +2 | 11 | Moved to Division West-B |
| 5 | HFC Haarlem | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 19 | 27 | −8 | 8 | Moved to Division West-B |
| 6 | RAP | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 33 | −21 | 4 | |

### Eerste Klasse West-B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Volharding | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 12 | +17 | 19 | Qualified for Championship play-off |
| 2 | HBS Craeyenhout | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 20 | +2 | 13 | Moved to Division West-A |
| 3 | Koninklijke HFC | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 16 | +4 | 9 | Moved to Division West-A |
| 4 | Hercules | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 21 | +3 | 9 | |
| 5 | Rapiditas Rotterdam | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 27 | −7 | 9 | |
| 6 | Quick 1890 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 32 | −19 | 1 | Moved to Division West-A |

### Championship play-off

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | HVV | VIT | VOL |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | HVV Den Haag | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 8 | | 1–0 | 5–0 |
| 2 | Vitesse | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 2 | 1–3 | | 4–2 |
| 3 | Volharding | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | −5 | 2 | 1–2 | 4–1 | |
